Sarah Boyts Yoder
Lives and works in Charlottesville, VA
ARTIST BIO
Sarah Boyts Yoder sees her paintings as hopeful, optimistic acts, and the mode of abstraction as a generous state of being. Yoder earned her Masters in Fine Arts in painting from James Madison University in 2006. Her work has been featured in numerous publications, exhibitions, and corporate and private collections throughout the United States and abroad, including the Virginia Museum of Contemporary Art. Sarah has been the recipient of a professional fellowship in painting from the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts and has been a fellow multiple times at the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts and 100W Corsicana in Corsicana, TX.
ARTIST STATEMENT
Sarah Boyts Yoder’s paintings, while abstract, often can be seen as environments, habitats, or landscapes that invite the viewer in with playful forms and celebratory color. They are a point of focus, they give and receive energy, but they also joyfully refuse to settle down. With repeated forms and flashes of familiarity, they insist one looks closer, over and over again, and stays engaged.
The paintings create spaces that encourage the imagination to open up, to bend and stretch, to change course and to develop a tolerance for unknowability. If these are worlds within worlds, who or what might inhabit them? How would those creatures navigate the environments? Could they give the viewers ideas for how to move about and what could be?
Abby Kasonik
Lives and works in Charlottesville, VA
ARTIST BIO
Abby Kasonik graduated Mangna Cum Laude from Virginia Commonwealth University’s School of the Arts, Department of Sculpture. Kasonik. uses clay and pattern to create imagined bodied sculptures that muddle our understanding of what is fixed and what is fluid. She is also an abstract painter, capturing moments of atmospheric change and shifts in her surrounding landscape. Kasonik received a degree in sculpture from Virginia Commonwealth University. Her work is in the collections of The Fralin Museum of Art, University of Virginia’s Forum Hotel at the Darden School, and the Boar’s Head Resort. She is also currently featured in the 2024 Virginia Museum of Contemporary Art Made in VA Biennale exhibition.
ARTIST STATEMENT
There is a certain thrill in not knowing. As surprise suspends the thinking mind, our more elemental self asks, ‘what do I see?’.
Made of clay, and reminiscent of legs, feminine hips, and the posture and domestic scale of animals and small bodies, these ever-shifting forms muddle our understanding of what is fixed and what is fluid.
Animating pattern obscures the surface, and erodes our anchor, eventually returning clay to the place it began, as undetermined.
These morphologies in all their mischievousness offer a place to enjoy the occasion of uncertainty.
Ceramic and underglaze 12 x 15 x 19 1/2 inches
$4,200
ABBY KASONIK Guide, 2024
9 1/2 x 15 x 16 1/2 inches
$3,800
ABBY KASONIK
Cipher, 2024
Ceramic and underglaze
14 x 9 1/2 x 16 1/4 inches
$3,600
ABBY KASONIK Summoner, 2024
Ceramic and underglaze
12 1/2 x 15 x 16, inches
$3,600
ABBY KASONIK
Signal, 2024
Ceramic and underglaze
Various Works On Paper, 2024
Acrylic, gouache, oil stick, and collage on paper
30 x 22 inches (each)
$1,600 (each)
SARAH BOYTS YODER
12 1/2 x 15 x 16, inches
$5,200
SARAH BOYTS YODER
Circus Day (Golden Balloon) 2024
Acrylic, gouache, oil, and collage on canvas
Acrylic, oil, and tempera on canvas
60 x 50 inches
$6,000
SARAH BOYTS YODER
Blue Tumble, 2023
Phone Call, 2024
Ink, watercolor, gouache, pastel, and oil on linen
28 x 28 inches
$3,000
SARAH BOYTS YODER
23 x 17 inches (each)
$1,000 (each)
SARAH BOYTS YODER
Black & White Gestures 1-6, 2024
Acrylic on paper
SARAH BOYTS YODER
Cartoon Jewel, 2024
Acrylic and oil on canvas
40 x 36 inches
$4,000
Saturday Night Shift, 2023
48 x 48 inches
$5,200
SARAH BOYTS YODER
Acrylic, gouache, and oil on canvas
16
$1,200 framed
SARAH BOYTS YODER
About Face 1, 2024
Acrylic, oil, collage, gouache on canvas
x 12 inches
16
SARAH BOYTS YODER
About Face 2, 2024
Acrylic, oil, collage, gouache on canvas
x 12 inches
$1,200 framed
16
SARAH BOYTS YODER
About Face 3, 2024
Acrylic, oil, collage, gouache on canvas
x 12 inches
$1,200 framed
16
SARAH BOYTS YODER
About Face 4, 2024
Acrylic, oil, collage, gouache on canvas
x 12 inches
$1,200 framed
Passing Through, 2024
26 x 20 inches
$2,600
SARAH BOYTS YODER
Acrylic, oil, and charcoal on canvas
SARAH BOYTS YODER
West Wind (diptych), 2024
Acrylic and gouache on canvas
30 x 48 inches
$ 4,000
SARAH BOYTS YODER
Snowy Sounds, 2024
Gouache, oil, acrylic, and charcoal on canvas
30 x 24 inches
$3,200 framed
30
$3,200 framed
SARAH BOYTS YODER
Cerulean Song, 2024
Gouache, oil, and acrylic on canvas
x 24 inches
ABBY KASONIK
Abbreviated CV
Education
1998 BFA, Sculpture, Virginia Commonwealth University School of The Arts
Select Exhibitions
2024 Made in VA, Virginia Museum of Contemporary Art, Virginia Beach VA
2020 Bond/Bound, Second Street Gallery, Charlottesville VA
2019 Summer Show, LYDM Gallery, Charlottesville VA
2018 TRIO, NCAI Welcome Gallery, Charlottesville VA
2015 Saturate, The Athenaeum Museum / NVFAA, Alexandria, VA
2010 Time Out, Second Street Gallery, Charlottesville, VA
2009 Transition, H. Scott November Gallery, Richmond, VA
2008 Ratio, McGuffey Art Center, Charlottesville, VA
2007 The Rentz Gallery, Richmond, VA
2007 New Members Show, McGuffey Art Center, Charlottesville, VA
2006 Group Show, McGuffey Art Center, Charlottesville, VA
2018
Reviews & Publications
2023 “Meet Abby Kasonik”, Canvas Rebel 2023 “Pattern Play”, Maeve Haden, C-ville Weekly
2015 “Fluid Dynamics”, Sarah Sargent, Virginia Living Magazine, (pg. 35)
2013 “Top 15 Home Decor Trendsetters From the South”, Pamela Berger, Huffington Post
2012 “Light & Aerie”, Southern Living 2010 “Abby Kasonik”, Sarah Sargent, Artnosh
2005 Feature Article, Cottage Living 2004 “World Weary”, review by Laura Parsons, The Hook, Charlottesville, VA
Select Public Collections
The Fralin Museum of Art at the University of Virginia
University of Virginia’s Forum Hotel at the Darden School
University of Virginia Foundation’s Boar’s Head Resort
SARAH BOYTS YODER
Abbreviated CV
EDUCATION
2006 MFA, Painting, James Madison University, Harrisonburg, VA
2003 BFA, Painting, Eastern New Mexico University, Portales, NM
Select Exhibitions
2023 Realm, Jen Tough Gallery, Santa Fe, NM, September
2021 Emblem, Page Bond Gallery, Richmond, VA
2021 Meantime, Jagg Gallery, Key West, FL
2019 Look At All There Is To Have, Saint Cloche, Sydney, Australia,
2019 Fleet, Page Bond Gallery, Richmond, VA, 2018 bathymetry, Sawhill Memorial Gallery, James Madison University, Harrisonburg, VA
2018 Trove, Charleston Music Hall, Charleston, SC
2018 Never No Horizons, Beverly Street Studio, Staunton, VA
2017 Forget Your Perfect Offering, Studio IX, Charlottesville, VA
2015 Elbows On The Table, Welcome Gallery, Charlottesville, VA
2015 A Single Jumpy Heart, The Garage, Charlottesville, VA
2015 Light In June, Blenheim Vineyards, Charlottesville, VA,
2014 Insist/Resist, Amuse Restaurant at VMFA, Richmond, VA,
Grants, Recidencies, and Honors
Blue Apple Beach, Artist in Residence, Cartagena, Colombia
2022 100W Corsicana, Artist in Residence, Corsicana, TX, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2021 Finalist, Bethesda
Painting Awards,
2018 Semifinalist, Trawick Art Prize, 2017 Professional Fellowship Award in Painting, VMFA, Richmond, 2014 Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, Painting Fellow, Amherst, VA, 2013, 2014 VA Invitational Graduate Art Students Forum,
SELECT COLLECTIONS
The Colony Hotel, West Palm Beach, FL
Stitch Design Company Partners, Charleston, SC
Emmeline Hotel, Charleston, SC Boars Head Resort, Charlottesville, VA Common House, Charlottesville, VA
Baker Motor Company, Charleston, SC
Capitol One, Richmond, VA FS2, Charleston, SC
Tenth Street Warehouse, Charlottesville, VA
INHABIT
Sarah Boyts Yoder & Abby Kasonik
Catalog Design
Parita Lamba, Gallery Associate
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